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Ravindra Dhir & Michael McCarthy
Concrete in the Service of Mankind [PDF ebook]
Appropriate concrete technology

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This third volume of Concrete in the Service of Mankind focuses on appropriate concrete technology. Concrete is ubiquitous and unique, and is found in every developed and developing country. Indeed, there are no alternatives to concrete as a volume construction material for infrastructure. This raises important questions of how concrete should

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Format PDF ● Pages 665 ● ISBN 9781482271713 ● Editor Ravindra Dhir & Michael McCarthy ● Publisher CRC Press ● Published 1996 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6785959 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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